Wed 29 Dec, 2010 08:32 pm - [quote]One human perception is that murder is wrong. Yet, if a sun goes supernova and obliterates all life on the orbiting planets, this is not right or wrong; it's just the way things are. If... (view)
Sat 11 Dec, 2004 08:17 am - From Thomas McCarthy's Ideals AND Illusions:
"Interpreters inevitably bring with themselves the perspectives and concerns of their own culture; they cannot avoid relying upon the... (view)
Sat 4 Dec, 2004 10:17 pm - The difficulty, of course, with ascribing "what man is" is the staggering complexity of all the macrocosmic variables that come together in the mind of any particular man enabling him to... (view)
Sun 13 Jun, 2004 06:24 pm - thethinkfactory:
I am not sure that you can claim that simply because an opnipotent being gives 'freedom' to another being that that being does not have freedom.
RP:
It is... (view)
Sun 13 Jun, 2004 03:34 pm - Re: A very brief demonstration of the Contingency Argument
irichc
All that exists in Nature is contingent, since its non-existence doesn't imply any contradiction.
However, if there... (view)
Mon 10 May, 2004 05:48 pm - JLNobody
Pardon my presumption, RP, but please do what I am trying to do: lighten up. Your points are well taken. It seems that your general frame of reference and cognitive style differ in... (view)
Sat 8 May, 2004 03:19 pm - [b]RP:
In that case I apologize, of course. And let me go on the record and state upfront that from now on any words I use in future posts will express only the manner in which I have come to... (view)
Sat 8 May, 2004 03:08 pm - [b]RP:
Whose code, however, yours? Are you the one who gets to define What A Paradox REALLY Is? [/b]
CRAVEN:
No, I neither coined nor defined the term that you are using incorrectly.... (view)
Thu 6 May, 2004 06:23 pm - [b]Joe:[/b]
You accuse me of unfairly demanding terminological exactitude, yet, in the very next paragraph, you attempt to impose your own.
[b]RP:[/b]
In that case I apologize, of course.... (view)
Thu 6 May, 2004 05:54 pm - CRAVEN:
....were it not for the codification of meanings discussion itself would be impossible.
RP:
Whose code, however, yours? Are you the one who gets to define What A Paradox REALLY Is?... (view)
